Arbitrary Command Execution in Hadoop · CVE-2018-11766 · GitHub Advisory Database · GitHub

Arbitrary Command Execution in Hadoop

High severity GitHub Reviewed Published Dec 21, 2018 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Jan 9, 2023

Package

org.apache.hadoop:hadoop-main (Maven)

Affected versions

>= 2.7.4, <= 2.7.6

Patched versions

2.7.7

Description

In Apache Hadoop 2.7.4 to 2.7.6, the security fix for CVE-2016-6811 is incomplete. A user who can escalate to yarn user can possibly run arbitrary commands as root user.

References

Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Dec 21, 2018

Reviewed Jun 16, 2020

Last updated Jan 9, 2023

Severity

High

8.8

/ 10

CVSS base metrics

Attack vector

Network

Attack complexity

Low

Privileges required

Low

User interaction

None

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

High

Integrity

High

Availability

High

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H